Andrea Blanar: Archives
Promotional Material / Matériel Promotionnel
Gallery on the Bay
Spring 2012
Re:InSitu
Maison de la culture
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
Saint John Arts Centre
Spring 2010 / Winter 2011
PDF (987 KB)
Maison de la culture
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
Saint John Arts Centre
Spring 2010 / Winter 2011
PDF (987 KB)
Gallery on the Bay
Spring 2009
Galerie d'Arts ContemporainsFall 2007
Trinity GalleriesSummer 2007
Stewart HallSummer 2005
Gallery on the BaySpring 2005
Temple Exhibition2003 -2004
Gallery on the BaySpring 2002
Prince Arthur Fine ArtsWinter 2002
Galerie d'Arts ContemporainsFall 2001
Burlington Art Centre
Winter 2000
PDF (1.4 MB)
Winter 2000
PDF (1.4 MB)
Trinity Galleries
Fall 2000
PDF (229 KB)
Fall 2000
PDF (229 KB)
Gallery on the BaySpring 2000
Waddington & GorceFall 1998
Pluralité1997 - 1998
Galerie Barbara SilverbergFall 1995
Waddington & GorceFall 1994
The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
July/August 1994
PDF (232 KB)
July/August 1994
PDF (232 KB)
Galerie Barbara SilverbergWinter 1993
UnknownUnknown
Art Jonction1988
Art Plus1983
Press Archives
A collection of press clippings spanning Andrea's career. Click on the heron icons to view individual press clips, or use your keyboard arrows (← and →) to move from clip to clip.
Revue Parcours • 2007"Retenons qu'Andréa Blanar cherche constamment a exprimer son besoin de ne faire qu'un avec les forces de la nature et elle le transmet dans ses œuvres par un langage porteur de sens et d'espérance. A voir et revoir."
Montreal Gazette • 11.2006"Andrea Blanar... one of five prominent Greater Montrealers of Hungarian background honoured for outstanding contributions to the community...."
Hamilton Spectator • 05.2005"She creates artwork that slips away from the real, into a world of magical signs and symbols."
Revue Parcours • 2003"Le plus extraordinaire dans tout cela, c'est que, dans la démarche artistique d'Andréa Blanar, rien n'est gratuit, rien n'est issu d'une symbolique appoximative, rien n'est même désincarné."
Revue Parcours • 2003"Most extraordinary of all is that there are absolutely no givens in Andrea Blanar's work. Nothing is the issue of some vague symbolism, nothing is disembodied."
Hamilton Spectator • 04.2002"The scene extends onto the frame formed by the pointed arch of a church window, blurring the boundaries between the landscape and the frame."
West Island Chronicle • 09.2001"For some people, old church windows and discarded pieces of driftwood are merely objects for the trash. But for Andrea Blanar, they're pieces of art waiting to happen."
New Brunswick Reader • 08.2000"Could it be that the vision of the original Yorkshire Methodists... is echoed in the creative artistry of one who, coming from a different place, attempts to re-create her own vision of divine majesty and beauty?"Page 2
Hamilton Spectator • 04.2000"Andrea Blanar surrounds some of her works with antique window frames. What we see through them is landscapes of the mind and memory."Page 2
Hamilton Spectator • 01.2000"The iconic power of these paintings is intensified by the presentation. Some have been painted on screens...others are on hinged panels like ecclesiastical altarpieces."
Burlington Post • 01.2000"Blanar's landscapes show the influence of the Maritimes but there is also a distinctly European religious flavour to her work."
Hamilton Spectator • unknown"The altar pieces and Gothic windows are like an entrance to a place where the truth is being revealed, entering a space that elevates you."
Sackville Tribune-Post • 09.1999"Blanar's first response to the salt marshes of New Brunswick was both passionate and immediate."
New Brunswick Reader • 09.1999"She had never seen saltwater marshes before and it was that aspect of the New Brunswick landscape that haunted her. When she returned to Montreal, her work began to change."
Saint John Times Globe • 05.1999"The gallery walls sing with colour as the New Brunswick landscape is splashed across old church windows and mirror frames, which are bordered with birds and decorative swirls.."
Sackville Tribune-Post • 09.1998"'The people around me have a certain feeling about the church and I do too. The building inspires that and it inspires me.'"
The Suburban • 09.1998"There are no boundaries or restrictions in the designs that she has established. The result is an endless depth and distance to her stretches of marsh, sea, sky, and mud flats."
Hamilton Spectator • 05.1998"'I have always felt this need- the need to make a mark, to alter the surface, to leave traces of myself.'"
Revue Parcours • 1996 - 1997"L'art est quelque chose de très personnel... tout ce qui se rapporte à la conceptualisation en arts visuels se fait en travaillant."
Montreal Gazette • 05.1996"The purpose of the trip is a church search, specifically the investigation of an old Wesleyan clapboard one for the painter."
Pluralité • 1994 - 1995"'Cette série s'inspire de l'art médiéval, en particulier les éléments d'autel et les enluminures de manuscrits.'"
Le Devoir • 10.1994"Œuvres qui s'ouvrent et se déplient comme une boîte, cernées d'oiseaux, surmontées de volutes qui les couronnent, elles parlent de la nature."
L'Acadie Nouvelle • 04.1994"Andréa Blanar transpose également dans ses œuvres un élément de spiritualité... véritable jonction des cultures asiatique et amérindienne."
L'Aviron • 04.1994"'Cette série est un hommage à l'Esprit de la Mer et à un lieu qui a touché mon âme.'"
Campbellton Tribune • 04.1994"Andrea Blanar presents Homage to the Sea, an exhibition presenting her perception of the spirituality and sensuality of Maritime landscapes."
Sackville Tribune Post • 08.1993"The work is confident, the colours are rich and deep."
Vie des Arts • 1979"Aujourd'hui le deuxième étage abrite Graphia et ressemble à plusieurs greniers du Boulevard Saint Laurent revivifiés par leurs artistes-locataires."
Montreal Star • 04.1979"In a delightful piece like 'Nesting in a Bonsai' she combines liquid and dashing brush strokes to produce a poetic semblance of branches."